Noun
- 1. hit, feat, effort, exploit
- usage: (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
- 2. hit, hitting, striking, touch, touching
- usage: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
- 3. hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang, success
- usage: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
- 4. collision, hit, contact, impinging, striking
- usage: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"
- 5. hit, dose, dosage
- usage: a dose of a narcotic drug
- 6. hit, murder, slaying, execution
- usage: a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
- 7. hit, joining, connection, connexion
- usage: a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
Verb
- 1. hit, propel, impel
- usage: cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
- 2. hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with, touch
- usage: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
- 3. hit, touch
- usage: deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
- 4. reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
- usage: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
- 5. hit, strike, affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
- usage: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
- 6. shoot, hit, pip, injure, wound
- usage: hit with a missile from a weapon
- 7. stumble, hit, come by, come into
- usage: encounter by chance; "I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"
- 8. score, hit, tally, rack up, gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
- usage: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
- 9. hit, strike, come to
- usage: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear"
- 10. strike, hit, attack, assail
- usage: make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"
- 11. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove, kill
- usage: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- 12. hit, strike, move, displace
- usage: drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
- 13. reach, hit, attain, arrive, get, come
- usage: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"
- 14. strike, hit, touch
- usage: produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"
- 15. hit, consume, ingest, take in, take, have
- usage: consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
- 16. hit, succeed, win, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
- usage: hit the intended target or goal
- 17. hit, approach
- usage: pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
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